Read the Wired article on a new threat to Internet security, exploiting the routers’ dependence on trust funnily enough (that’s 70s technology for you). For my selfish strategic purposes I particularly liked this quote: “Everyone … has assumed until now that you have to break something for a hijack to be useful,” Kapela said. “But [...]
Had a vivid dream last night including the usual suspects for topics, my honey, my mother, a comic, and my first Iraq War dream. It didn’t last long but for a war dream was short and sweet so thought it worth blogging, as I guess most such dreams are troubled. So I was in [...]
Ok, this is too much. An evangelical on the train to work, and another on the train on the way back. Both quoting scripture. Now, here’s my tip to evangelists. Don’t quote the Bible to people, talk in the language they understand. It will help you understand scripture better too, I promise.
Received this recently from Stephen Marrin, Assistant Professor, Intelligence Studies Department, Mercyhurst College (below). It comes shortly after the piece in Wired magazine (’Behind Enemy Lines With a Suburban Counterterrorist’) about a lday who trained herself up in cyber-counter terrorism. And who’s local FBI office have to use the internet terminal at their local library to ‘get online’. So why, in that context, bother joining the Service when you can be both analysts and decision maker in your own back room?
There are two types of people in this world — those who use ‘Satnav’ — and those whose use intuition. The more money you have the better Satnav you can afford, clearly. Intuition also doesn’t come cheap, when you develop it.
If anyone found a coffee coloured latop (Apple Mac) in cafe Nero’s in High Street Ken’ today please drop me an email in confidence, or just drop it at reception at the Kensington Centre, 66 Hamersmith Rd. It belongs to a smart guy over from Harvard Medical School and it could have something useful on [...]
Liked the BBC TV report on the actions of one family caught up in the flooding, who had just sold their house the week before, and their parents who’s house was hit were away on holiday in the Canary Islands. Nice example of the potential power of people to predict the unpredicatble, or were they [...]
Saw this on the Business Link site and thought it was good to make the distinction:“It is important to differentiate between invention and innovation. Invention is a new idea. Innovation is the commercial application and successful exploitation of the idea.”
Vote for Europe’s Young Entrepreneurs (ps: Aodhan Cullen, StatCounter)
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